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Macalester College Professor of Chemistry and former Northwestern (2010-2014) Stoddart Group Graduate Student, Dennis Cao, was awarded a 2022 Henry Dreyfus Teaching-Scholar Award. The Dreyfus Foundation presents this award to faculty members who have demonstrated leadership in original scholarly research of outstanding quality with undergraduates, as well as excellence and dedication in undergraduate education. Congratulations

Electron transfer is a fundamental chemical process that adds an electron into one chemical entity and generates a hole in another. Both the additional electron and the corresponding hole exhibit remarkable catalytic effects in promoting chemical transformations. Over the past few decades, with the renaissance in radical chemistry, as well as the advent of radical-mediated